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Setting the date/time using "date"

To change the date on your Freerunner, issue one of the following commands:

date -s MMDDhhmm
date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY
date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss

where MM is the month, 01-12; DD is the day, 01-31; hhmm is the time, 0000-2359; YYYY is the optional year, and .ss is the optional seconds.

Setting date/time from your linux box

ssh root@openmoko "date -s `date --utc +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S`"

Setting the date/time automatically with NTP

If your Freerunner is connected to the internet, you can instead set the time automatically:

opkg install ntpclient
ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org

Syncing the hardware clock

No matter which method you used above, sync the hardware clock with the system time to make your change persist over reboots:

hwclock --systohc

Future Work

Presumably it might also be possible to use gpspipe (or something else) to set the date once you have a gps fix? In addition, the phone stack should set the date, time, and timezone once connected to a network.

For more information on Linux timekeeping, see Linux, Clocks, and Time. (But ignore mentions of /etc/sysconfig/clock. That doesn't apply to the Openmoko environment.)

Setting the date/time using "date"

To change the date on your Freerunner, issue one of the following commands:

date -s MMDDhhmm
date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY
date -s MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss

where MM is the month, 01-12; DD is the day, 01-31; hhmm is the time, 0000-2359; YYYY is the optional year, and .ss is the optional seconds.

Setting date/time from your linux box

ssh root@openmoko "date -s `date --utc +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S`"

Setting the date/time automatically with NTP

If your Freerunner is connected to the internet, you can instead set the time automatically:

opkg install ntpclient
ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org

Syncing the hardware clock

No matter which method you used above, sync the hardware clock with the system time to make your change persist over reboots:

hwclock --systohc

Local Time

If you want to have localtime setup, then link your proper zone file to /etc/localtime, similar to the following:

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime

And restart the xserver so that your clock shows the right time:

/etc/init.d/xserver-nodm restart

Future Work

Presumably it might also be possible to use gpspipe (or something else) to set the date once you have a gps fix? In addition, the phone stack should set the date, time, and timezone once connected to a network.